Ruth Kikin-Gil

Ruth Kikin-Gil is a design strategist leading Responsible AI and humanity-centered practices for Microsoft’s Security organization and beyond. She creates guidelines, processes, and tools to help integrate Responsible AI thinking in products.

Ruth is a co-creator of Microsoft’s Guidelines for Human-AI Interaction. She serves on the programming committee for Microsoft’s Machine Learning and Data Sciences (MLADS) conference, leads a women’s mentoring circles program in security, and was the programming co-director for IXDA’s Interaction conference in Seattle. She also teaches design at the Human Centered Design and Engineering (HCDE) department at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Her career focuses on product innovation across devices, input methods, and platforms, including designing future experiences for Microsoft Office, creating future scenarios in an incubation lab, and working on a strategy team. Prior to Microsoft she founded a design agency, and worked in startups and as a consultant. She is a Bezalel Academy of Art and Design alumna and holds an Interaction Design degree from Interaction Design Institute Ivrea (IDII) in Italy.